The data comes from an infographic compiled by OnlineGraduatePrograms.com, with the specific goal of finding out about tolerance of slow webpage speeds for the average U.S. web user. Then they extended the data to cover other habits that take time, like waiting in line or being served in a restaurant. It turns out that Americans are an astonishingly impatient lot. In fact, odds are they've probably all given up reading this by now. Holla, rest of the world!

This analysis about the Amazon Prime member service is really interesting, here are the stats:

Pros:

• Increase their purchases on Amazon from $400 a year to $900 a year after they join. (source)
• Spend 130% more than regular Amazon customers. (source)
• May be responsible for as much as 20% of Amazon's overall sales in the U.S. (source)
• 82% of Prime members buy on Amazon even if the item is less expensive somewhere else (source)
• 92% of Prime members plan to renew their membership. (source)

Cons:

• The Prime promotion grew Amazon’s shipping costs 55% to $4 billion last year, which is well over the $1.55 billion Amazon gets in shipping fees from customers. (source)
• Amazon spends more than $90 a year for each Prime customer, losing $11 annually for each subscriber. Of the $90, $55 comes from shipping costs and $35 comes from acquiring digital video content. (source)

As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and...

Amazon keeps giving, it's like Christmas all year around. Costs for Amazon S3 have decreases which means you can store more for the same price, or save money for storing the same amount you need.

And I bet they are not done with this...

The long-rumored Amazon tablet is finally here. The new device — which has been dubbed the Kindle Fire — is poised to take on its Android and iOS competitors this holiday season, but does it stand a chance?

After Apple, Amazon has the best media and app marketplace, and a massive distribution channel.

An amazon tablet? THAT would be a great idea.

Rumors of Amazon either purchasing Netflix or launching a competing option have been circling and now one of our readers says he's seeing an unlimited video streaming section to complement the current Amazon VOD options.

I am in.

Sell your books back to Amazon, maybe we need to start digging old books! And DVDs and old electronics... Very cool.

"AmazonTote is a free weekly delivery service from Amazon.com. There are no subscriptions, minimum delivery sizes, or fees. Items delivered using AmazonTote will be brought to your doorstep in a reusable tote bag, free of charge."

How it works? Choose the "Ship Free with AmazonTote" delivery option on the product page for eligible items and proceed through the checkout. There are no minimum delivery sizes, subscriptions, or fees.

I am in!

"AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an even easier way for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. At the same time, with Elastic Beanstalk, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time. Elastic Beanstalk leverages AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling to deliver the same highly reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure that hundreds of thousands of businesses depend on today. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is easy to begin and impossible to outgrow.

Most existing application containers or platform-as-a-service solutions, while reducing the amount of programming required, significantly diminish developers' flexibility and control. Developers are forced to live with all the decisions pre-determined by the vendor - with little to no opportunity to take back control over various parts of their application's infrastructure. However, with Elastic Beanstalk, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application. If you decide you want to take over some (or all) of the elements of their infrastructure, you can do so seamlessly by using Elastic Beanstalk's management capabilities.

The first release of Elastic Beanstalk is built for Java developers using the familiar Apache Tomcat software stack which ensures easy portability for your application. There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk - you only pay for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications."

Another service to add to Amazon's list. One to remember about when the time comes.